title:BEATING UP DADDYauthor:GENE DUCETTEisbn978-1-888580-09-9media:BOOK (200 pages) pub:1999price:$13.00 $4.00Follow a year in the life of Gene Doucette, an amateur father who has exquisitely documented the wonder (and horror) of parenting.Whether he's on vacation, celebrating the holidays, planning a birthday party or just trying to make it to the end of the week with two live children . . . Gene manages to wrestle humor from the jaws of domestic disarray.If you are a parent now, if you plan to be a parent in the near future or if you were raised by parents, you'll find more than enough to laugh at in this riotous account of a devoted-yet-disheveled dad.